Rex’s New App Facilitates Discovering and Sharing Recommended Places with Friends

Former Twitter product manager Aliza Rosen and a team of Twitter alumni have launched a new social app called Rex that enables users to share their personal recommendations on places to visit with friends and followers. Through the use of artificial intelligence and computer vision technologies, the app searches users’ Camera Roll for photos from favourite spots, which can then be added to curated playlists and shared on the app’s global feed. Rosen said she was inspired to create the app because finding places to visit that meet a user’s needs and preferences can be difficult, with the abundance of reviews and recommendations from strangers. The app is free to download and is currently not generating revenue through ads, subscriptions or in-app purchases.